The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi “will go to Kyiv this week and then to Moscow” to discuss the creation of a buffer zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, according to a statement issued late Monday, AFP and Agerpres reported. .
Rafael Grossi will “continue consultations” to create such a device “as soon as possible”, the UN body said, without specifying when it is expected in the two hostile countries.
The director of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya, which is occupied by Russian troops, has been fired, Rafael Grossi said on Monday, Reuters reports.
Director Ihor Murasov was detained on Friday, according to Ukraine, by a Russian patrol when he was driving from the plant he headed to the city of Energodar, where most of the staff live.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of its kind in Europe, is still operated by Ukrainian workers, and Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of bombing nearby.
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